{"id":11687,"date":"2024-08-30T12:20:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11687"},"modified":"2025-04-20T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T15:26:54","slug":"republic-of-everfrost-cast-in-atonement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/republic-of-everfrost-cast-in-atonement\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend of the Arch Magus: REPUBLIC OF EVERFROST &#038; CAST IN ATONEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had thought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0DCTQMB2T\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the thirteenth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/legend-of-the-arch-magus-dragon-missing\/\" title=\"Legend of the Arch Magus &#038; Dragon Missing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arch Magus<\/a> novel was taking longer than usual to appear, and apparently (according to the Afterword here) it&#8217;s because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Michael-Sisa\/e\/B07FCFXVTY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the author<\/a> burned out and was thinking of ending the series. They changed their mind though and this entry is kind of a transitory one centered on giving some backstory to that group of Imperial witches mentioned a few times earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Sagara\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Sagara<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0CGXKYR8C\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/tag\/chronicles-of-elantra\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elantra<\/a> novel focuses mainly on wrapping up the &#8216;seeing ghosts&#8217; plotline while also tying it into and adding an addendum to the gold dragon&#8217;s backstory. Or rather, I&#8217;d like to say it focuses on that, but instead it mostly consists of chained recap segments which only eventually get around to dealing with that in a tortuously roundabout manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had thought the thirteenth Arch Magus novel was taking longer than usual to appear, and apparently (according to the Afterword here) it&#8217;s because the author burned out and was thinking of ending the series. They changed their mind though and this entry is kind of a transitory one centered on giving some backstory to that group of Imperial witches mentioned a few times earlier. Michelle Sagara&#8216;s latest Elantra novel focuses mainly on wrapping up the &#8216;seeing ghosts&#8217; plotline while also tying it into and adding an addendum to the gold dragon&#8217;s backstory. Or rather, I&#8217;d like to say it focuses on that, but instead it mostly consists of chained recap segments which only eventually get around to dealing with that in a tortuously roundabout manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[109,28,794,796,108],"class_list":["post-11687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-chronicles-of-elantra","tag-fantasy","tag-legend-of-the-arch-magus","tag-michael-sisa","tag-michelle-sagara"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}